1 MONKEY!

2 Good morning good people.

3 The Morning Rant: Superior American Edition

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So, all the other morning rants are, what?, Armenian?

4 I even had to correct my horrible typing.

5 first?

6 way off, but at least i'm not chasing otters.

so it's time for content.

morning horde

7 Europeans are poor.

Their cities are dirty

Crime is through the roof

And they are imprisoned for saying things everyone agreed with 20 years ago.

Fascism might always be coming to America...but its now in Europe

8 and while i never lived in europe, i've spent a fair amount of time there for work over the years. you're not wrong in any of the above that i have seen.

tiny apartments with tiny furnishings for tiny support

9 My absolute favorite Sam Adams quote. I would follow that guy right into a line of frickin red coats.

10 Apparently, being able to get around on nice trains trumps the loss of freedom...


Heh. The people of Minnesota have their rape.gsnga, but are still waiting for their trains.

11 What is "the flex?"

12 I have long said that all of Europe is like a museum. It's all pretty and historic and in many cases spectacular. Just like the dinosaurs were. You walk through Europe and you can't shake the feeling that, like the dinosaurs, everything good about the place is in the past.

13 Lunch time is almost over

14 C'mon CBD, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.

15 Because their f*cking kitchens are tiny, and their toy refrigerators don't hold enough for more than a day or two of cooking!

Imagine the power you would have over the masses if the *tiniest* supply chain wobble results in mass hunger, thirst, darkness, and/or cold?

16 Europe is generally socialist regardless how they want to describe it, it's still a pig with lipstick.

17 Cut News Jib with Robert Spencer was a very good listen

18 Eurotrash can live any way they wish. It's not for me to tell them how to live. But I also think they should defend themselves and their "way of life" on their own. Open borders and welfare statism leads only to social chaos, and depending on America or the EU to protect you from the inevitable invasion is just wish-casting.

19 I've always wanted to see England, Scotland, and Ireland. Not any more, not with what they are turning into. Their totalitarian seizure of opportunity during the Sniffle Scare changed that idea for me forever.

Same with Australia and New Zealand.

20 Are Europe's "judges" as bad as Ours? One just ruled that the "Maryland Dad" must be released immediately..

21 If you've ever worked for a company that has European offices you'll understand that the Euros are all lazy-assed layabouts who are constantly thinking of and bragging about what they'll do with the month of August since none of them spend it at work.

They're as useless as tits on a boar, and loathsome assholes to boot.

22 12 I have long said that all of Europe is like a museum. It's all pretty and historic and in many cases spectacular. Just like the dinosaurs were. You walk through Europe and you can't shake the feeling that, like the dinosaurs, everything good about the place is in the past.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11

I would live in Italy in 3 seconds. But not Milan, or Rome, or especially Naples. But Cortona? Yes. It’s a postcard. I would even hang laundry on the line.

23 11

What is "the flex?"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 11, 2025 11:05 AM (pkeXY)

Show of power or superiority.

24 Europe, as a whole, is worse off than our poorest states.

Additionally, the "powerhouses" of Europe: Germany, France, UK, are BARELY at the GDP of Mississippi (Germany) or below it (UK, France).

That "indolence" is part of it, but most of it is governmental misrule, which birthed that "indolence" and entitlement.

The Germans that came over here to work are especially hard workers. (Auto Industry).

That's likely selection bias, but the German work ethic clearly still exists.

25
Get out of NATO, now

26 I used to have discussions with out west German representative about Europe and the USA. He always brought up the black issue and how that was terrible. My counter point was wait until your muslim population approaches 13% and see what happens.

They are seeing it now most gooder and harder and I laugh.

27 C'mon CBD, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 11:06 AM (W7XSX)

I loved every bit of my time there, but to pretend that Europe is some magnificent testament to human progress is a cruel joke.

But...Parisian women are gorgeous!

28 24 Europe, as a whole, is worse off than our poorest states.

Additionally, the "powerhouses" of Europe: Germany, France, UK, are BARELY at the GDP of Mississippi (Germany) or below it (UK, France).

That "indolence" is part of it, but most of it is governmental misrule, which birthed that "indolence" and entitlement.

The Germans that came over here to work are especially hard workers. (Auto Industry).

That's likely selection bias, but the German work ethic clearly still exists.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (zjgNU)

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But Europe imported Syria which meant positive GDP which makes them not only economic powerhouses, no matter anything else, but more moral than you.

29 Europe is going to fall.
But it will be illustrative that you can't have birth control and cradle to grave Socialism and still have European culture.

30 Most of the smart and enterprising Europeans left the continent in the 18th-19th centuries, going to either the New World or their countries' colonies abroad.

The World Wars killed off most of those who stayed.

Europe's been on a downward trajectory for a long time.

31 27 I loved every bit of my time there, but to pretend that Europe is some magnificent testament to human progress is a cruel joke.

But...Parisian women are gorgeous!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (n9ltV)

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I would move back to Rome in a heartbeat.

But my standard of living would be materially lower and probably cost more.

32 Good morning all.
My son lived in Brussels for 3 yrs. I was astounded the first time I saw their apartment. It was spacious but the kitchen was a joke. Tiny fridge, 2 burner stove,washing machine but no dryer. It is a completely different lifestyle.

33 Japan MAY be facing the problem and accepting that there may be fewer Japanese people around but they will, at least, BE Japanese.

It's a better choice than what Europe is making. Of course, they're on an island. Very hard for Africans and Muslims to invade an island.

34 Never been to Europe, doubt I ever shall?? What am I missing?

35 "But you Americans have guns! How gauche! You're supposed to let the state protect you!"

36
What is "the flex?"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


Something to brag about or to lord it over someone else.

Not unlike self-absorbed gym rats admiring themselves while flexing in front of a full length mirror.

37 33 Japan MAY be facing the problem and accepting that there may be fewer Japanese people around but they will, at least, BE Japanese.

It's a better choice than what Europe is making. Of course, they're on an island. Very hard for Africans and Muslims to invade an island.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

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50% of Japan's population in 100 years, but all Japanese, will still be Japan.

110% of Japan's population in 100 years, but majority African, will not be Japan.

Also, lower birthrates tend to fix themselves over time. Space becomes less of an issue at a certain point.

38 It's a better choice than what Europe is making. Of course, they're on an island. Very hard for Africans and Muslims to invade an island.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Heck, the Mongols couldn't even take Japan.

39 Tread lightly, Morons. The chimppunk is in full rage mode this morning.

40 There are youtube videos of Brits and other Europeans visiting America and are blown away at the size of our kitchens and appliances.

And the portion sizes in restaurants.

41 I was in London for a week in the summer of 2014. Even then it was extremely dirty. I can't imagine how much trash is lying around 11 years later!

42 35 "But you Americans have guns! How gauche! You're supposed to let the state protect you!"
Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 11:11 AM (svLOV)

Because they do such a fine job, I opine, dripping with sarcasm.

43 Democrats want us to be like Britain, Germany, or France. Small choices, thought control, government control of housing, food, and medical care.

They can screw the hell off.

44 Thx CBD.
Pax Americana has allowed Europe to be self indulgent aholes since the fifties. Every stupid leftist idea upto and including the EU. Now uncontrolled invasion by muzzies. There's a response to the above tweet wiere a guy in Europe lays out everything that is wonderful and better in Europe. Every bit is caused by us being there. If we left NATO the French and Germans would be at each other's throats within six months.

45 IIRC, only Luxembourg is above the capita in earnings of our lowest state. That is nothing to be proud of.

On my first trip to Europe I was shocked at how appliances was so small and cost 2X+ our prices. My eyes were opened to the lies we were f living better that Americans.

46 38 It's a better choice than what Europe is making. Of course, they're on an island. Very hard for Africans and Muslims to invade an island.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Heck, the Mongols couldn't even take Japan.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

Bad luck for the Mongols helped Japan there, but yes.

47 Europe suffers from the same malaise that our country does, to a lesser extent.

They have been coasting on the built up physical and cultural capital from their previous, great civilization.

Both physical infrastructure built by great empires and cultural infrastructure, built by Christianity are what created Europe.

But they've been undermining both, either through neglect (physical) or outright hostility (Chrisitanity).
Their leaders are men without chests who think that the Christian ethic they grew up with is the natural state of man. That's why they think importing third world, hostile, musselmen will work.

It is a disaster and it will not get righted with an actual war, for which they have purposely made their military and people wholly unprepared.

48 Let Europe be what they are, just don't bring it here.
I could care less what they do, say, or think.
However we have a good many Americans who I wish
would deport themselves to Europe where they would
be happy.

49 I have long said that all of Europe is like a museum. It's all pretty and historic and in many cases spectacular. Just like the dinosaurs were. You walk through Europe and you can't shake the feeling that, like the dinosaurs, everything good about the place is in the past.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11

I would live in Italy in 3 seconds. But not Milan, or Rome, or especially Naples. But Cortona? Yes. It’s a postcard. I would even hang laundry on the line.
Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:08 AM (Wmg4n)
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So you saw that Tuscany movie with Diane Lane? LOL.

50 The future belongs to who shows up.
This is not good news for Europe.

51 It is a disaster and it will not get righted with* an actual war, for which they have purposely made their military and people wholly unprepared.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (zjgNU)

*without

An edit button! My kingdom for an edit button!

52 If Edward Creasy could make his list of the most significant battles in history I wonder if he’d still include the Battle of Tours. After all, it looks as though the Arab Muslims may well succeed in conquest… it was a delaying action… 1400 year delaying action….

53 50 The future belongs to who shows up.
This is not good news for Europe.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (xcxpd)

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If Germany hadn't forced Europe to import Syria 10 years ago, Europe would have had to find another solution to their social welfare net crisis.

Something like: having babies.

54 I went to Germany on a business trip over 25 years ago. I thought it was nice.

But I was shocked at all the graffiti along the train routes. I thought I was in NYC.

My preconceived notion that Germany was orderly was shattered.

55 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

56 Circa 1990. A college friend brought his very Italian girlfriend over. It was our first house. Regular 3b,2b,2 car garage in a decent neighborhood in SW Houston.
Lovely girl that was very fresh on the scene seeing America for the first time.
She saw our double door refrigerator in the kitchen, asked if she could open it and then commenced to crying.
She told us the local store they went to everyday didn't have that much refrigeration and absolutely no ice.

57 51 An edit button! My kingdom for an edit button!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (zjgNU)

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There's a solution to that!

Cozy up to ace so much that he gives you the keys!

Just hope he checks his email.

58
But...Parisian women are gorgeous!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December

My mama was stunning to her last day. When I see pictures of her in her 20s? Wow. My grandmother, being French, used to tell my mom she was pretty but not as pretty as her- how awful is that? Now my grandmother would stop you in your tracks in her youth, she was gorgeous, too. She was a ringer for Zsa Zsa Gabor. My sister looks just like them.

59 An edit button! My kingdom for an edit button!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (zjgNU)

I have sung that song as well....

60 Heartbreaking European letter to Santa.

https://is.gd/cI1vUD

I guess they're European hillbillies.

61 C'mon CBD, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.

Posted by: no one at December 11, 2025 11:06 AM (W7XSX)

I loved every bit of my time there, but to pretend that Europe is some magnificent testament to human progress is a cruel joke.

But...Parisian women are gorgeous!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (n9ltV)
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I was disappointed in French ladies. I expected Brigitte Bardot and Lea Seydoux. What I got was ... not that.

I was more impressed with Italian, Spanish, and German babes.

62 The Germans that came over here to work are especially hard workers. (Auto Industry).

That's likely selection bias, but the German work ethic clearly still exists.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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A lot of older books talk about a Protestant work ethic. So does this hold for the southern krauts, too?

63 Also don't get me started on the lackadaisical bullshit that is the European way of eating dinner at 10pm.

For Pete's sake eat dinner at a normal time and then go to fucking bed so you can be at work in the morning. Yeesh.

64 "Federal judge orders Abrego Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody" crows CBS news...

The Dems and the left have spent millions on this trash getting him out of legal custody so he can roam free...just to watch him go right back in...which will be the case again very shortly.

These people are evil idiots - they're not going to get anything out of this but a hole in their wallet and bad PR...

65 I am a history buff and love to travel. I traveled to Europe for the first time the year I graduated college with a back pack by myself. You could do that at one time. I spent 3 months mostly in Amsterdam and London and then went to Israel. Never felt scared. No cell phones. People were wonderful. I spent days wandering the streets and visiting museums. It was a different world. Authentic. Now lost.

66 Most of the smart and enterprising Europeans left the continent in the 18th-19th centuries, going to either the New World or their countries' colonies abroad.

The World Wars killed off most of those who stayed.

Europe's been on a downward trajectory for a long time.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

Europe also did everything they could to destroy their successful colonies abroad, as well. (South Africa and Rhodesia.) Australia and New Zealand are destroying themselves.

67 There's a couple of English guys who travel the US and make vids about how little they understand and /or in awe of about the US. Pretty funny stuff.

68 But the biggest problem by far is Europe's curious disinterest in their own freedom. Speech is carefully controlled by government and compliant corporations, and with that control comes a diminution of the very concept of freedom and liberty.

Who knew that Big Brother controlling the masses required nothing more than a short form video of some female making bird hands and telling you that your thoughts are problematic?

69 My husband Richard was a valued municipal employee, essential to the delivery of services to our Borough. Won awards and all! Please don't disparage the sacrifice and dedication these fine cogs in the wheel of progress afford the greater British public.

70
So you saw that Tuscany movie with Diane Lane? LOL.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025

Nope. Didn’t even read the book, and I know how much the locals hate it. I live with someone from there.

71 Bare Boobs! It's French Culture!

72 Early Bird Special type dinner eater. We call it supper. When two meals a day are the default early makes sense.

73 You're supposed to let the state protect you!"

Posted by: NR Pax at December 11, 2025 11:11 AM (svLOV)

The same State which is imprisoning people for saying men are men?

Yeah. I'll take my chances with the guns, thanks.

74 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

75 But my standard of living would be materially lower and probably cost more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

The vast majority of Western Europeans cannot conceive of a standard of living on par with ours.

The apartment in which we lived was in an upscale neighborhood, and quite large for Paris (1,600 square feet), but was laid out with the assumption that appliances were tiny, energy was expensive, and A/C was nonexistent.

The building itself was laid out for maximum inconvenience too.

76 For Pete's sake eat dinner at a normal time and then go to fucking bed so you can be at work in the morning. Yeesh.
Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 11:17 AM (3BwY

I’m extreme in the other direction as I like to eat dinner at 4pm (lunch at 11am). I go to bed at 9 and up at 4 or 5… I can’t fathom eating dinner at 10pm

77 It's a better choice than what Europe is making. Of course, they're on an island. Very hard for Africans and Muslims to invade an island.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 11, 2025 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

Well, I never!

78 But...Parisian women are gorgeous!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (n9ltV)

Yeah, American women need to up their game in general.

Fortunately, for us American males, the Euro-Male is kinda ratty.

79 59 An edit button! My kingdom for an edit button!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (zjgNU)

Think Before You Post.

80 Free medical care.

https://is.gd/36DhgN

81 Apparently, being able to get around on nice trains trumps the loss of freedom...

Europeans are perplexed that we don't use trains more. Of course, Europeans tend to think that the US is the size of France.

82 I would move back to Rome in a heartbeat.

But my standard of living would be materially lower and probably cost more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

Rome was amazing, but yeah, what you said. You would also have to get used to driving a scooter and parking like a retard.

83 Surprisingly, one of the countries that is turning to capitalism, free expression, freedom of mobility, and competition is Vietnam. Go figure.

84 If Germany hadn't forced Europe to import Syria 10 years ago, Europe would have had to find another solution to their social welfare net crisis.

Something like: having babies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

There would be a big contraction before that happened, because kids don't want babies anymore and birth control drugs means they don't have to.

In the meantime, their welfare state would collapse because there aren't enough people for their aging population to be supported.

They are caught in a trap. And they can't walk out.

85 I loved every bit of my time there, but to pretend that Europe is some magnificent testament to human progress is a cruel joke.

But...Parisian women are gorgeous!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:09 AM (n9ltV)

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I would move back to Rome in a heartbeat.

But my standard of living would be materially lower and probably cost more.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)
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No offense, but Rome was my least-favorite Italian city (other than Milan) in terms of where to live. Spectacular things to see and do on vacation. But I found the people smelly, rude, and overall the city was dirty and (surprisingly) covered in graffiti.

Some real Italian smokeshows, though. Like my mom.

Would I live there for 6 months? Why not? But move their permanently? Nope.

86
MUNKEY

87 82 Rome was amazing, but yeah, what you said. You would also have to get used to driving a scooter and parking like a retard.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (snZF9)

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I'd probably walk and use the public transportation.

It's not the best public transportation, but it works. Most of the time.

88 Think Before You Post.
Posted by: Sir Mark Nancy Susan Heather Rowley

Yeah, right, like that's gonna happen.

89 IIRC, only Luxembourg is above the capita in earnings of our lowest state. That is nothing to be proud of.

On my first trip to Europe I was shocked at how appliances was so small and cost 2X+ our prices. My eyes were opened to the lies we were f living better that Americans.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (xvV+O)

Also Netherlands and Finland.

90 Euros are lazy, entitled, sexually disordered, smelly, over educated and host many a sexually transmitted disease.

If they were a plow mule, they would be mercifully put down.

91 I think I'll just blame the Biden administration for propping up a President who had dementia and being a left wing cabal.

92 85 No offense, but Rome was my least-favorite Italian city (other than Milan) in terms of where to live. Spectacular things to see and do on vacation. But I found the people smelly, rude, and overall the city was dirty and (surprisingly) covered in graffiti.

Some real Italian smokeshows, though. Like my mom.

Would I live there for 6 months? Why not? But move their permanently? Nope.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

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It's a part sentimental thing, tied to my year living there when I was younger, with the physical beauty of the aged aspects, along with the religious aspect.

I love that place.

93 First day in Rome some scum bag tried to pick my pocket. He learned Americans get testy and physical quickly when that happens. Most were shocked on the train a very few congratulated me.

94 The Best Left is what I have often heard. The truth of that I do not know.

95 I would live in Italy in 3 seconds. But not Milan, or Rome, or especially Naples. But Cortona? Yes. It’s a postcard. I would even hang laundry on the line.
Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:08 AM (Wmg4n)
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So you saw that Tuscany movie with Diane Lane? LOL.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

No one can afford kids in Italy, so you'd be living solo like they do.

I'll never forget when my spouse spent 11 months there on deployment. I brought my 18 month old to visit on 2 separate trips and it was like I was bringing a treasure. Folks would treat my spouse and I better just to get close to the little princess b/c she was so rare, and boy did we hear a ton about no one can have a kid b/c no one could afford to raise the kid...

96 Look at the changes in Europe from 2000 to 2025.

Now imagine what Europe will look like in 2050.

An increasingly poor, rapidly Islamfying continent, with Chinese-style social and political repression - no freedom of speech, all "anti-EU" parties banned, and a mandatory digital currency that the government can confiscate from you at any time.

97 91 I think I'll just blame the Biden administration for propping up a President who had dementia and being a left wing cabal.

Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 11, 2025 11:22 AM (Nx5jP)

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Troll doesn't realize white birthrates are so low because progressive birthrates are so low.

Conservative whites are at replacement rate of 2.1, barely changing since the 90s.

Conservatives have kids while progressives tell their one kid that they're a racist stain on the world that's going to explode any minute anyway.

98 Europeans are perplexed that we don't use trains more. Of course, Europeans tend to think that the US is the size of France.

We do use trains. We use them so we don't have to walk to change terminals at our massive airports.

99 Morning! That woman in the Art Thread looks like an ur-Karen.
And it's 5 below zero here.

100
Europe has been living on the capital, not the interest, for decades. And now the capital is running out. France is bankrupt and unreformable, Germany is implementing the Morgenthau Plan of its own accord, Britain is sliding into authoritarianism and civil war.

101 If we left NATO the French and Germans would be at each other's throats within six months.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 11, 2025 11:13 AM (D+mpw)

Which one is Sunni and which one is Shia?

102 Are Europe's "judges" as bad as Ours? One just ruled that the "Maryland Dad" must be released immediately..
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It'll be immediately appealed and stayed.

103 and overall the city was dirty and (surprisingly) covered in graffiti.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

That's one of the things that surprised me about Paris. Over the last generation, graffiti has become endemic. Miles and miles of it along the highways leading into the city, and even in nice neighborhoods it is a constant.

104 I've never left the continental US in all my life. I used to think it might be nice to visit Europe and see the sights, but now I realize two things:

1 - Let's face it, I'm already seeing the apex of the West right here...warts and all.

2 - And if I want to see the ruins of fallen empires...well, I'm watching that in realtime, sadly.

It's a bittersweet set of realizations. Welcome to the 21st century, I guess.

105
It's a part sentimental thing, tied to my year living there when I was younger, with the physical beauty of the aged aspects, along with the religious aspect.

I love that place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

When we go to Italy, I drag J to Rome for the day to stare in awe at the things many people only get to see in books, and a super fancy dinner. Then it’s out of my system and back to Tuscany. Don’t even speak to me about the horribleness of Pompeii.

106 If we ever go expat, the countries we would consider are Uruguay, Finland, and maybe Portugal.

107 Surprisingly, one of the countries that is turning to capitalism, free expression, freedom of mobility, and competition is Vietnam. Go figure.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (g8Ew

Also most Vietnamese (especially in the US, but in country as well) LOVE Americans.

We should really increase ties. (I believe Trump has been.)

108 103 and overall the city was dirty and (surprisingly) covered in graffiti.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

That's one of the things that surprised me about Paris. Over the last generation, graffiti has become endemic. Miles and miles of it along the highways leading into the city, and even in nice neighborhoods it is a constant.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (n9ltV)

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"It's all the quality of Banksy!"
-Europe

*not taking it personally, apparently*
-Banksy

109 82 I would move back to Rome in a heartbeat.

But my standard of living would be materially lower and probably cost more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

Rome was my favorite Italian city...Venice was an overpriced tourist trap.

I loved Assisi and Lucca, but not quite "cities"...and Pisa is a waste of time...go to Lucca instead...

110 Europeans are perplexed that we don't use trains more. Of course, Europeans tend to think that the US is the size of France.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (ExV1e)

Totally this. When I did that metal cruise every year the vast amount of people on it were from europe. Many of them were here for a month and the cruise was a small part of it. They would rent cars and drive to other places either before or after the cruise. I heard the same stories over and over. After driving to other places they started to understand the size of the US, why we don't have trains running everywhere, and holy shit they love our big cars. lol

111 If I was gonna move anywhere outside the USA, it would be to Asia.

Sadly, I can't handle the heat and humidity of most of the countries in the area. But I would take Korea or Japan or Philippines or Bangkok or even Vietnam over any place in Europe.

I may one day do winters in Philippines and summers in USA.

112
Europeans are perplexed that we don't use trains more. Of course, Europeans tend to think that the US is the size of France.

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We have an extensive and profitable rail system here. Our track mileage is only exceeded by Russia. It is used, as it should be, for freight.

113 Rome is filthy, covered in graffiti, streets and sidewalks in terrible condition. Crowded, smelly.Food is still fantastic though. I'm glad I got to see the sights but have no desire to go back to Rome. Would love to explore the rest of the country's Bologna and Florence were incredible.

114 105 When we go to Italy, I drag J to Rome for the day to stare in awe at the things many people only get to see in books, and a super fancy dinner. Then it’s out of my system and back to Tuscany. Don’t even speak to me about the horribleness of Pompeii.

Posted by: Piper at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (Wmg4n)

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I finally did Pompeii on this trip.

It was a thing to see. Glad I saw it. It's done now, though. Barely saw any of Naples outside of that.

The weird thing is that I'm not a city person. I generally don't like them. But Rome? Rome is just...different.

115 That's one of the things that surprised me about Paris. Over the last generation, graffiti has become endemic. Miles and miles of it along the highways leading into the city, and even in nice neighborhoods it is a constant.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025

Brussels is awful with this, on beautiful buildings.

116 Now imagine what Europe will look like in 2050.

An increasingly poor, rapidly Islamfying continent, with Chinese-style social and political repression - no freedom of speech, all "anti-EU" parties banned, and a mandatory digital currency that the government can confiscate from you at any time.

Of course, we're going to look like that too if the Democrats take power back - they will make very, very sure that they will never lose power again.

117
Are many parts of Western Europe beautiful? Absolutely! Many of their cities are marvels of architecture and culture, and its physical beauty is often stunning.




Those marvels of architecture and culture are almost always OLD architecture and culture, from when Europe actually worked. Their modern culture is either wholly produced by or based on American culture, no matter how crude it is.

Europe is a cultural cemetery.

118 Every Christmas i like to call Europe and give them the message from Bruce Willlis.

119 My sister looks just like them.
Posted by: Piper

She was, in fact, talking about her twin sister.

120 And they don't pick up dog shit in Italy. It's everywhere.

121 Brussels is awful with this, on beautiful buildings.

52% of the school kids in Brussels are Muslim.

122 *weeps*

123 I loved every bit of my time there, but to pretend that Europe is some magnificent testament to human progress is a cruel joke.

In a way, it is. It's the magnificent testament to human progress that provided a foundation that America built upon even more magnificently.

It's both tragic and criminal that the current "elites" are now systematically tearing down all that was admirable about the culture that the giants who came before them built over so many centuries.

124 Canadian appliances are also insanely expensive. 2 or 3 times the American price.

125 I would move to Japan in a heartbeat if A) I could speak/read/write the language, which I cannot and don't have the time to learn, and B) If the people weren't so wildly xenophobic/racist. They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.

126
The weird thing is that I'm not a city person. I generally don't like them. But Rome? Rome is just...different.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO

I have this picture I took of a door in one of the little side streets of Rome. It’s probably my favorite picture, not the Trevi Fountain, not Vatican City, but this little door. I get it.

127 I finally did Pompeii on this trip.

It was a thing to see. Glad I saw it. It's done now, though. Barely saw any of Naples outside of that.

The weird thing is that I'm not a city person. I generally don't like them. But Rome? Rome is just...different.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 11, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

It's the religion, ruins, and cats for me, while surrounded by an actual city.

It's why I loved Lucca and Assisi - you move from the Roman Empire ruins in Rome to the Dark Ages...and then finish in Florence for the Renaissance (I also liked Florence) and call it a day...

128 Over 100 so here is James O’Keefe’s latest not so undercover video with a fat black racist NPR journalist college lecturer. First few minutes are hilarious.

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1998890704206991693

129 and overall the city was dirty and (surprisingly) covered in graffiti.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

That's one of the things that surprised me about Paris. Over the last generation, graffiti has become endemic. Miles and miles of it along the highways leading into the city, and even in nice neighborhoods it is a constant.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (n9ltV)
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It's been a few years since I was in Paris, but when I was there the graffiti was mostly outside the city proper. I remember taking a cab from CDG into the city for the first time, and being like "wtf, am I in the right place?" Outside the city wasn't the City of Lights. It was the City of Shites. Pretty shitty neighborhoods, crawling with obvious immigrants (Muslims), and covered in graffiti. Luckily, all that changed when I got to the city proper. I don't know if that's still true.

130 Those marvels of architecture and culture are almost always OLD architecture and culture, from when Europe actually worked. Their modern culture is either wholly produced by or based on American culture, no matter how crude it is.

Europe is a cultural cemetery.

Yeah, Europe takes an awful lot of credit for what their ancestors did.

131 and overall the city was dirty and (surprisingly) covered in graffiti.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

That's one of the things that surprised me about Paris. Over the last generation, graffiti has become endemic. Miles and miles of it along the highways leading into the city, and even in nice neighborhoods it is a constant.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (n9ltV)

That's what surprised me the most about our trip to Germany this year.

Ghetto-style graffiti everywhere and I mean...Everywhere!!!

The German reputation for order and cleanliness and hardworking is either totally exaggerated or no longer operational.

132 If we left NATO the French and Germans would be at each other's throats within six months.
Posted by: Smell the Glove


And the downside is?

133 125 I would move to Japan in a heartbeat if A) I could speak/read/write the language, which I cannot and don't have the time to learn, and B) If the people weren't so wildly xenophobic/racist. They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.

Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (3BwY

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I downloaded Duolingo and started Japanese lessons!

They should probably remove all the Western lettering from the words, though. I'm not learning the Japanese writing systems at all. Maybe over time, it'll get harder.

134 I am a history buff and love to travel. I traveled to Europe for the first time the year I graduated college with a back pack by myself. You could do that at one time. I spent 3 months mostly in Amsterdam and London and then went to Israel. Never felt scared. No cell phones. People were wonderful. I spent days wandering the streets and visiting museums. It was a different world. Authentic. Now lost.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:17 AM (t/2Uw)

I lived in Germany for four and a half years back in the 70's. Wonderful place. Had a lot of fun.

Went back around 2011. Didn't recognize it. Totally changed. It was like walking around in East Berlin before the wall came down. So sad.

135
It's both tragic and criminal that the current "elites" are now systematically tearing down all that was admirable about the culture that the giants who came before them built over so many centuries.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (COQGW)

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At the same time, they hide behind that heritage to sneer about how barbaric we are.

136 125 I would move to Japan in a heartbeat if A) I could speak/read/write the language, which I cannot and don't have the time to learn, and B) If the people weren't so wildly xenophobic/racist. They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.
Posted by: ballistic at December

Take a Shiba with you. They are a golden ticket! That is our next big vacation. I may have to borrow a Shiba while there as I don’t think I can just bring mine.

137 110 Europeans are perplexed that we don't use trains more.

When I was moving from CA to MD, I actually thought about taking Amtrak just to enjoy the view and relax.

An airline ticket was less than half the price. Easy choice.

138 In Europe, sometimes the washing machine is in the kitchen

and their electrical outlets look funny

139 I’ve been to the Paris of the future when I went to Marseilles in 1991.

140 Budapest is my favorite city. Beautiful, historic, walkable, great food, inexpensive and they hate socialists .

141 119 My sister looks just like them.
Posted by: Piper

She was, in fact, talking about her twin sister.
Posted by: The Narrator at December 11, 2025 11:28 AM (ittVa

Sadly, no. She is 21 months older than me!

142 If I was gonna move anywhere outside the USA, it would be to Asia.

Sadly, I can't handle the heat and humidity of most of the countries in the area. But I would take Korea or Japan or Philippines or Bangkok or even Vietnam over any place in Europe.

I may one day do winters in Philippines and summers in USA.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 11, 2025 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

Korea and Japan both have temperate climates, influenced by the fact they are both coastal countries. Tokyo is right in the middle of Japan and is about the same latitude of Asheville, NC.

Hokkaido (Northernmost island) is quite cool and has serious winters.

143
Budapest is my favorite city. Beautiful, historic, walkable, great food, inexpensive and they hate socialists .
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:32 AM (t/2Uw)

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Nothing like a bout of communism to make you hate socialism.

144 Eastern Europe still has some hope. I would love to visit there and see Cracow, Prague, and Budapest.

I loved Moscow when I was there in the Yeltsin years. Yeah, it was pretty filthy, but you kind of expect that in Russia. Would love to see St. Petersburg, too.

145 20
Are Europe's "judges" as bad as Ours? ‘

Judging by what I see on the Lotus Eaters podcast, they are worse.

146 We have an extensive and profitable rail system here. Our track mileage is only exceeded by Russia. It is used, as it should be, for freight.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 11:26 AM (tgvbd)

Exactly! And we use our trucking system for the last mile, which keeps massive train stations outside of our cities!

147 64 "Federal judge orders Abrego Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody" crows CBS news...

The Dems and the left have spent millions on this trash getting him out of legal custody so he can roam free...just to watch him go right back in...which will be the case again very shortly.

These people are evil idiots - they're not going to get anything out of this but a hole in their wallet and bad PR...

Posted by: Boswell at December 11, 2025 11:17 AM (NTVPI)

Isn't he under a sentence from Tennessee for some crime? Just put him back in the State pen, until this lawless order is quashed.

148 Totally OT:

Robert Pattinson seems to like to be in the center of Love Triangles.

Poor Tom Holland.

Short Kings get no respect.

149
Passenger rail: 19th century technology at 21st century costs.

150 Budapest is my favorite city. Beautiful, historic, walkable, great food, inexpensive and they hate socialists .
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:32 AM (t/2Uw)


Prague is great too.

151 I would move to Japan in a heartbeat if A) I could speak/read/write the language, which I cannot and don't have the time to learn, and B) If the people weren't so wildly xenophobic/racist. They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.
Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (3BwY

Many people mistake politeness for kindness.

They are polite to a fault, but not particularly kind, especially to outsiders.

152
We have an extensive and profitable rail system here. Our track mileage is only exceeded by Russia. It is used, as it should be, for freight.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 11, 2025 11:26 AM (tgvbd)



And depending on freight transport rates at any given time, a good portion of that containerized freight is Chinese goods transiting the US by rail from the West Coast to East in order to be shipped to Europe.

153 I would move to Japan in a heartbeat if A) I could speak/read/write the language, which I cannot and don't have the time to learn, and B) If the people weren't so wildly xenophobic/racist. They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.
Posted by: ballistic at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (3BwY

Weird.

I've never had an experience like that in Japan, and I've been there a lot, since I was stationed there in the late 80s.

Not saying it didn't happen to you, but it didn't to me. Now, France on the other hand is where I actually saw some anti-American rudeness at a couple of restaurants.

154 Are Europe's "judges" as bad as Ours? ‘

FUN FACT: Roland Freisler was the model for Judge Boasberg.

155 UNEXPECTEDLY!

Headline (Bloomberg)

"US trade deficit unexpectedly shrinks to smallest since 2020"

156 Ran across a good example of how the European's have allowed their military forces to decay into near non-existence. The British Navy for a couple of centuries was the most powerful naval force in the world; even in the 80's they didn't have much trouble operating in the Falklands War.

As of today, the British Navy is smaller than Italy's. Their surface combatant forces consist 7 Frigates, 6 Destroyers, and 2 aircraft carriers that they are scared to take too far out of port because they break down so often. That plus a few subs is it, that's the entire British Navy now.

157 155 UNEXPECTEDLY!

Headline (Bloomberg)

"US trade deficit unexpectedly shrinks to smallest since 2020"
Posted by: mrp at December 11, 2025 11:37 AM (rj6Yv)

A threadbare word.

158 Prague is near the top of my bucket list. I have never been to Poland and it is where my grandparents were from.

159 Beautiful, historic, walkable, great food, inexpensive and they hate socialists

The last part sold me. Time to start looking for plane tickets.

160 156 Ran across a good example of how the European's have allowed their military forces to decay into near non-existence. The British Navy for a couple of centuries was the most powerful naval force in the world; even in the 80's they didn't have much trouble operating in the Falklands War.

As of today, the British Navy is smaller than Italy's. Their surface combatant forces consist 7 Frigates, 6 Destroyers, and 2 aircraft carriers that they are scared to take too far out of port because they break down so often. That plus a few subs is it, that's the entire British Navy now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 11:38 AM (uWKK

Like the Cajun Navy, only their food sucks.

161 Poland and Hungary are the only sane European countries at this point.

162 That plus a few subs is it, that's the entire British Navy now.
Posted by: Tom Servo

But they still have rum, sodomy, and the lash, right? So they're good.

163 As of today, the British Navy is smaller than Italy's. Their surface combatant forces consist 7 Frigates, 6 Destroyers, and 2 aircraft carriers that they are scared to take too far out of port because they break down so often.


They could probably still take the Russians in a surface engagement.

164 161 Poland and Hungary are the only sane European countries at this point.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:39 AM (t/2Uw)

Exhausted cultures?? Like farmed out soil.

165 163 As of today, the British Navy is smaller than Italy's. Their surface combatant forces consist 7 Frigates, 6 Destroyers, and 2 aircraft carriers that they are scared to take too far out of port because they break down so often.


They could probably still take the Russians in a surface engagement.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:40 AM (COQGW)

Like Bum Fights.

166 Don’t even speak to me about the horribleness of Pompeii.
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I've got to admit I'd like to see the venue that Pink Floyd filmed at all those years ago.

167 May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

That masterful line always gets me. Unfortunately, Idiocracy approaches and some will say he talks like a fag...

168 As of today, the British Navy is smaller than Italy's. Their surface combatant forces consist 7 Frigates, 6 Destroyers, and 2 aircraft carriers that they are scared to take too far out of port because they break down so often. That plus a few subs is it, that's the entire British Navy now.
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Probably for the best, since the Muslims will soon control the UK Government/military. Hopefully we have a plan to exfil the nukes.

169
I loved Moscow when I was there in the Yeltsin years. Yeah, it was pretty filthy, but you kind of expect that in Russia. Would love to see St. Petersburg, too.
Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ)



I read somewhere that all cities look inviting in the winter, because the snow hides the filth and garbage.

170 Poland and Hungary are the only sane European countries at this point.

And the current ruling party in Poland is pro-EU, pro-mass immigration, and all the rest.

They're just not strong enough to actually implement these policies yet.

171 Prague is near the top of my bucket list.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Same here.

I used to want to see Vienna, too, but I here it's a lost cause these days. The capital of classical music is now just another muzzied-up stan.

172 If we ever go expat, the countries we would consider are Uruguay, Finland, and maybe Portugal.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 11, 2025 11:25 AM (lW16O)

Uruguay, and also Paraguay, have done a stellar job of staying out of the news. That's a good thing.

173 We have had friends in Northern Italy for years. Have traveled there. The complaints registered in the rant do not seem to apply there, as far as I can tell. YMMV.

174 Probably for the best, since the Muslims will soon control the UK Government/military. Hopefully we have a plan to exfil the nukes.

It's been more than a decade since the Royal Navy has successfully launched a Trident missile from a sub.

175 Are Europe's "judges" as bad as Ours? One just ruled that the "Maryland Dad" must be released immediately.

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Point Counterpoint.

House Dem Files Articles Of Impeachment Against RFK Jr. For Turning His Back On Science

Lila Rose
@LilaGraceRose
Unjust.
Swiss man Emanuel Brünisholz has been jailed for refusing to pay a fine after posting a Facebook comment noting the differences between male and female skeletons.
The government claims his statement violated anti-discrimination laws against those who say they are “LGBTQ”
Pointing out the biological differences between men and women isn’t “hatred” — it’s acknowledging basic science.

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Some science good. Other science bad.

176 My sister lives in France. She takes TDS to the extreme. Anyhow, she was telling me about lying on a gurney in a hospital hallway for something like six hours. I asked her if that ever happened to her when she lived in NYC, and invited her to tell me how superior socialized medicine is compared to the USA.

177
They could probably still take the Russians in a surface engagement.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:40 AM (COQGW)

They probably could. It's amazing to recall that once the Soviet Navy was considered second only to the US in strength. Any Euro who still thinks that Russia is some giant military power should ponder this for a while.

178 Poland and Hungary are the only sane European countries at this point.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 11, 2025 11:39 AM (t/2Uw)

The EU's fire brigades when the SHTF.

179 171 I used to want to see Vienna, too, but I here it's a lost cause these days. The capital of classical music is now just another muzzied-up stan.

Posted by: Bulg at December 11, 2025 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

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Was there a few months ago.

It's very clean and very...18th century.

The largest Muslim presence I felt in my last Europe trip was in Munich, and that was one concentrated little pro-Hamas protest outside of St. Stephen's of all places.

180 and B) If the people weren't so wildly xenophobic/racist.

My brother's experience, as well, and he wrote and spoke the language.

181
Are Europe's "judges" as bad as Ours? One just ruled that the "Maryland Dad" must be released immediately..
Posted by: It's me donna

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Which means he's in detention, which means he's awaiting... what? Trial? Deportation? How long has the "what" not happened and why are we still waiting for it?

182 I read somewhere that all cities look inviting in the winter, because the snow hides the filth and garbage.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

I was in Moscow in the winter, and you could still see the grime everywhere. But, as I said above, it's Russia, so you just accept it.

One of the coldest days I've ever experienced was the day I toured the Kremlin. But, again, you expect that in Russia. It was very appropriate.

183 176 My sister lives in France. She takes TDS to the extreme. Anyhow, she was telling me about lying on a gurney in a hospital hallway for something like six hours. I asked her if that ever happened to her when she lived in NYC, and invited her to tell me how superior socialized medicine is compared to the USA.

Posted by: windbag at December 11, 2025 11:43 AM (rEn7R)

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There was a movie made in Canada about 20 years ago: The Barbarian Invasions (no, it has nothing to do with immigration, actually).

It went from critical darling to cultural hatepoint pre-social media for an interesting reason.

It's about aging leftists reflecting on life, but the actual literal view of the Canadian healthcare system showed overcrowded hospitals with patients waiting in hallways on gurneys while the main character's son had to negotiate with people to get his father in to see a specialist.

184 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

185 "Our government makes sure we get XX days of vacation yearly."

I didn't use any vacation days this year. I'll live.

186 > Probably for the best, since the Muslims will soon control the UK Government/military. Hopefully we have a plan to exfil the nukes.
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IIRC, all their nukes are on their ballistic missile subs. I don't think they've got "bombs" in the traditional sense or missiles (ICBMs).

So, if that's it... we'll sink the subs and be done with it.

There's no possible way to remove the weapons on those submarines while they are in port. In England. Run by Islamists hell bent on using them.

187 >They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.
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maybe they're still butthurt over getting nuked

188 FUN FACT: Roland Freisler was the model for Judge Boasberg.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 11, 2025 11:37 AM (COQGW)

It wasn't those blue weirdos from Prometheus?

189 Italy, until one gets sick then its get home quick.

190 I lived in Germany for two tours in the 70's and 80's. Also Turkey for a year in '85. My apartment in Turkey had a kitchen that was bigger than any place I lived in Germany. But very small living room. Weird that way.

191 Ban it!

New York Post
@nypost
‘Jingle Bells’ is racist, claims video shared by Joy Reid — sparking Christmas culture war

192 Why was Chase Bank "spoofing" the silver market all through 2010 to 2020? What is "spoofing"? Suppose you want to hold down the price of a commodity. Here is the illegal trick you could use: tell the market you are selling the commodity - then cancel that offer to sell. If you carefully time this you can hold the price down. Chase admitted they were doing that and paid a fine of $920,000,000 for doing that.

Why hold the price down? Because you are buying the commodity and keeping it, and you want to keep the price low. They had to be buying huge amounts of silver to afford an almost billion dollar fine.

193 Italy, until one gets sick then its get home quick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 11, 2025 11:47 AM (0XZup)
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Yeah, buy the best travel insurance you can afford.

194 Canadian appliances are also insanely expensive. 2 or 3 times the American price.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (lW16O)

Cannot confirm or deny. I have not bought a new appliance in 20 years. Last "major" appliance I bought was a used washing machine for $125. I was looking for a new drip coffee maker, and the el-cheapos at WalMart start at twenty dollars. I got a nice used one at a thrift shop for nine bucks.

195 When the Islamists take full control of Denmark, and Denmark still owns Greenland...

196 191 Ban it!

New York Post
@nypost
‘Jingle Bells’ is racist, claims video shared by Joy Reid — sparking Christmas culture war

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:48 AM (L/fGl)

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There is no war on Christmas.

There are just the educated elite making all aspects of Christmas problematic and unfit for public social life which you poor rubes don't understand.

197 @BillMelugin_
·
56m
Eyebrow raising moment during Secretary Noem’s testimony.

@BennieGThompson
refers to recent shooting of National Guard soldiers in DC as “unfortunate accident”.

198 For all of our well known problems there is no place like the US on earth. One of the biggest problems we have is a society where few know this simple truth. They are bombarded with propaganda from our elites telling them the US is a backward country without a distinct culture while Europe is a refined and enlightened wonderland.

They are being lied to. The US is the light of the free world and if it ever gets extinguished the world will fall into darkness and that is not hyperbole.

199 cont from 190

The Germany I lived in would not tolerate what is there now. But then they were the WW 2 generation. They didn't tolerate a lot of stuff.

200
Now, France on the other hand is where I actually saw some anti-American rudeness at a couple of restaurants.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 11, 2025 11:36 AM (iJfKG)



During the Desert Shield buildup in 1990, a bunch of us American soldiers serving as peacekeepers went to Eilat to drink beer and chase Euro women. We were all at a big table having dinner one night and the Israeli waiter started off being polite, but then started lecturing us, literally wagging his finger in our faces telling us that we needed to do something about Saddam.

As much as I support and admire Israel as a country, in my experience a big chunk of individual Israelis are rude assholes.

201 Silver spot price, 63.60/ounce.

202 197 @BillMelugin_
·
56m
Eyebrow raising moment during Secretary Noem’s testimony.

@BennieGThompson
refers to recent shooting of National Guard soldiers in DC as “unfortunate accident”.

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (ZxPkt)

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Think he survives a post VRA Section 2 world as the sole black and Democrat rep in Mississippi?

203 There's no possible way to remove the weapons on those submarines while they are in port. In England. Run by Islamists hell bent on using them.
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Perhaps the last native Captains will sail them to Norfolk when the Quran hits the fan.

204 I HATE MYSELF AND I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW IT!

205 *Norfolk, VA.

206 I'll just leave this here.

Variety@Variety
Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow Among 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in Political Journalism Honorees

207 There's no possible way to remove the weapons on those submarines while they are in port. In England. Run by Islamists hell bent on using them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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It's conceiveable that the Naval officers still have some since and unlike the French in Moroco will bring their ships to dock in Virginia?

208 Europe? Bah, humbug. Coke comes in a thimble. Fit for nary a sip.

209 Canadian appliances are also insanely expensive. 2 or 3 times the American price.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 11, 2025 11:29 AM (lW16O)


But they do sell better toilets there...none of this low-flush garbage. Don't ask me how I know.

210
The US is the light of the free world and if it ever gets extinguished the world will fall into darkness and that is not hyperbole.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (viF8m)




THIS. FOR THE LOVE OF SWEET BABY JESUS, THIS

211 @BennieGThompson
refers to recent shooting of National Guard soldiers in DC as “unfortunate accident”.

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Ted Bundy had a shit load of those.

212 Oh hey, so what's the weather like over in Chattogram today?

213 206 leftists love giving themselves awards for being leftists.

214 Comment 204, before is was scrubbed, was more more over the top than I have seen here in a long long time.

215 New York Post
@nypost
‘Jingle Bells’ is racist, claims video shared by Joy Reid — sparking Christmas culture war

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
_________

Jeez, what's she said about White Christmas?

216 Another thought piece that hits it out of the ballpark, CBD.

217 I was about to say so,etching about the troll but CBD was quick. Thank you.

218 Jeez, what's she said about White Christmas?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 11, 2025 11:53 AM (XvL8K)

You mean Cloud Dancer Christmas?

219 The US is the light of the free world and if it ever gets extinguished the world will fall into darkness and that is not hyperbole.
Posted by: JackStraw

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Last best hope of man on earth.

220 Squeezing racism out of Jingle Bells is incomprehensible.

221
Jeez, what's she said about White Christmas?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 11, 2025 11:53 AM (XvL8K)



Ask her about the phrase "white as snow". Or better yet, "black ice"

REEEEEEEEEEEEE!

222 107
‘ one of the countries that is turning to capitalism, free expression, freedom of mobility, and competition is Vietnam.’

It is funny how we couldn’t force them to take any of those things 55 years ago. They were ready to fight to the last man.
But as soon as it was THEIR idea… they couldn’t have enough.
Maybe they are like Americans.

223 They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.
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maybe they're still butthurt over getting nuked
Posted by: Don Black


Don't start none. Won't be none.

224 They are being lied to. The US is the light of the free world and if it ever gets extinguished the world will fall into darkness and that is not hyperbole.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2025 11:49 AM (viF8m)

Truth

225 we win, WE WIN!!

"Critical minerals used for building weapons and other essential electronics have been discovered in the sands of Utah's Silicon Ridge.

Ionic Mineral Technologies (IMT) uncovered 16 different types of high quality minerals within its 74,000 square foot mining site in Provo.

The find could give the US an edge over China which has long dominated the market.

'You can’t make a vehicle without these, you can’t make a fighter jet without some of these metals,' IMT's founder and CEO Andre Zeitoun told the Wall Street Journal.

Zeitoun added that the minerals discovered are used for semiconductors, electronics, and chips that power artificial intelligence.

IMT told the Wall Street Journal the minerals discovered include lithium, alumina, germanium, rubidium, cesium, vanadium and niobium."

226 Another thought piece that hits it out of the ballpark, CBD.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 11, 2025 11:54 AM (qBdHI)

Yeah, he's very rarely within the ballpark, isn't he?

227 NIOBIUM!

228 222 107
‘ one of the countries that is turning to capitalism, free expression, freedom of mobility, and competition is Vietnam.’

It is funny how we couldn’t force them to take any of those things 55 years ago. They were ready to fight to the last man.
But as soon as it was THEIR idea… they couldn’t have enough.
Maybe they are like Americans.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 11, 2025 11:55 AM (jbnUc)

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It's my understanding that the Vietnamese people saw it as a nationalistic fight against colonialism, America just the latest in a long line that dates back to Chinese fights to control it, and that their leaders just happened to be communist at the time. It wasn't ideological for most of the Vietnamese.

229 They probably could. It's amazing to recall that once the Soviet Navy was considered second only to the US in strength. Any Euro who still thinks that Russia is some giant military power should ponder this for a while.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 11, 2025 11:43 AM (uWKK

The Soviets wanted to project power worldwide. Putin is only interested in the "near-abroad".

230 IMT told the Wall Street Journal the minerals discovered include lithium, alumina, germanium, rubidium, cesium, vanadium and niobium."
Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 11:56 AM (g47mK)

Judge Boasberg rules that the entire thing has to be sold to China immediately.

231 I loved every bit of my time there, but to pretend that Europe is some magnificent testament to human progress is a cruel joke.

But...Parisian women are gorgeous!

Blink three times if you are being held against your will and commenting under duress.

232 Squeezing racism out of Jingle Bells is incomprehensible.
Posted by: tubal

Apparently, it was written by a former Confederate soldier and, she alleges, was intended to be sung in black face at minstrel shows.

233 Federal judge just ordered Abrego Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody. Just once, just once I would love to hear Trump tell this judge to pound sand.

https://tinyurl.com/38yjrnpk

234 > Perhaps the last native Captains will sail them to Norfolk when the Quran hits the fan.
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I have a rough outline in my head for a bang up techno-thriller. Needs some star power, a hot babe and cool AI special effects.

235 232 Squeezing racism out of Jingle Bells is incomprehensible.
Posted by: tubal

Apparently, it was written by a former Confederate soldier and, she alleges, was intended to be sung in black face at minstrel shows.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)

Oh, yeah, we always sang it in blackface. Stupid Bitch.

236
They're all polite to a fault but getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old.
----

maybe they're still butthurt over getting nuked
Posted by: Don Black




*Du Pont says hello*

237 Go big or go home!

Climate activists want to save the world by draining the Mediterranean Sea into the Egyptian desert

https://is.gd/91Xv2Z

238 Stupid Bitch.
Posted by: tubal at December 11, 2025 12:00 PM (pDt9x)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE STUPID BITCH EXACTLY FITS THE METER OF THE SONG

239 @greg_price11
·
1h
A leftist dressed as a Catholic Cardinal just interrupted Secretary Noem's opening statement yelling "the power of Christ compels you."

240 The US is the light of the free world and if it ever gets extinguished the world will fall into darkness and that is not hyperbole.
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The US at its core has always represented "hope". The idea that all men were created equal. That all men have the rights. That a man could be born poor, but still have an opinion. That a man could be lacking in some way but still achieve something of note, and keep whatever he achieved rather than casting it away to the state. That a man could make mistakes, and think bad thoughts, and yet somehow still find redemption. Yes redemption, because at its core the US has always embraced Judeo-Christian values.

Our Nation's struggles to remain "the light of the free world" are tied almost entirely to our struggle to remain a nation that embraces Judeo-Christian values. Because without those values, it becomes quite easy to lose one's hope. Without hope, and the possibility of redemption, one day soon looks just like the next, and a feeling of nothingness can overtake our being.

241 239 @greg_price11
·
1h
A leftist dressed as a Catholic Cardinal just interrupted Secretary Noem's opening statement yelling "the power of Christ compels you."

Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:01 PM (ZxPkt)

=======

Sending Catholic Hispanics back to majority Catholic Hispanic countries is a moral sin, or something.

242 what's she said about White Christmas?

"Baby it's cold outside" is a roofie rape song!!

243 "ballsy" is a stance.

Maria Corina Machado had to sneak out of Venezuela in disguise to get to Oslo for her Nobel.
It was first in a wig and disguise to get to the coast, then onboard a small launch on the 9th, and then across the Gulf on the 10th to Miami where she got on a private jet for the leg across the Atlantic
During that time the US ran a couple of F-18's over the area to the dismay of the Venezuelans, and then the following day seized an oil tanker that was false flagged (we may have heard of this).

Was this done to support Corina Machado? Or was it just pushed up because it would be convenient? Or just happenstance?
Ballsy. This is Argo level ballsy.

244 Big Ben Roethlisberger for the win!

245 They are bombarded with propaganda from our elites telling them the US is a backward country without a distinct culture

If when they say "backward" they mean "not progressive enough", then, from their perspective I would agree and would answer: "we aren't 'backward' enough".

As for distinct culture, they are correct. The US has no distinct culture. Leftists brag that the US is a Salad Bowl of multi-culturalism that particularly hates the WASP culture that built this place from scratch.

246 1h
A leftist dressed as a Catholic Cardinal just interrupted Secretary Noem's opening statement yelling "the power of Christ compels you."
Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:01 PM (ZxPkt)

You can take the kid out of the theater, but... he'll still be a ridiculous garbage baby anywhere else, regardless.

247 America was foundationally made of people who wanted to get the hell away from European oppression. Europe sucked back then, for, you know, people who did not want their faces ground by the boot of the state.

248 So Spanish Inquisition cosplay.

249 Apparently, it was written by a former Confederate soldier and, she alleges, was intended to be sung in black face at minstrel shows.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 11:58 AM (L/fGl)

Oh, yeah, we always sang it in blackface. Stupid Bitch.
Posted by: tubal
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It's not racism its cultural appropriation.

250 This is Argo level ballsy.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 11, 2025 12:03 PM (rbvCR)

I love the subtext.

"Hey let's support this lady getting a Peace Prize by committing a bunch of acts of war against the shithole that's been oppressing her. That'll be funny, right?"

251 Backfield in motion?

Michigan's head football coach was just fired for an alleged affair ... then he was arrested 😬

https://is.gd/PYK27P

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Fella needs to read some Proverbs 5.

252 A leftist dressed as a Catholic Cardinal just interrupted Secretary Noem's opening statement yelling "the power of Christ compels you."

His sum knowledge of Christianity comes from the movie 'Exorcist'.

253 "Critical minerals used for building weapons and other essential electronics have been discovered in the sands of Utah's Silicon Ridge.

Ionic Mineral Technologies (IMT) uncovered 16 different types of high quality minerals within its 74,000 square foot mining site in Provo.

The find could give the US an edge over China which has long dominated the market.

'You can’t make a vehicle without these, you can’t make a fighter jet without some of these metals,' IMT's founder and CEO Andre Zeitoun told the Wall Street Journal.

Zeitoun added that the minerals discovered are used for semiconductors, electronics, and chips that power artificial intelligence.

IMT told the Wall Street Journal the minerals discovered include lithium, alumina, germanium, rubidium, cesium, vanadium and niobium."
Posted by: runner at December 11, 2025 11:56 AM (g47mK)

I smell 100% bullshit. Their "mine site" is less than 2 acres, for one. Two, dissolve enough dirt and sand in acid, and run it through a spectrometer, you will "detect" the presence of a host of elements. None of which are sufficiently concentrated to be considered "ore".

254 I feel like the phrase "blunt trauma" does not appear in the news coming out of our capitol nearly often enough.

255 In a nutshell, Western Europeans are dhimmi.

256 I have a rough outline in my head for a bang up techno-thriller. Needs some star power, a hot babe and cool AI special effects.

Hollyweird will want the english muzzies to be german nazis and the US president to be Ilhan Omar but played by Samuel Jackson.

257 More and more I am convinced that an entire generation of assholes will have to die off before America can regain its former glory.

Like in The Ten Commandments
The Israelites had to wander the desert for 40 years, 'until the entire generation that had sinned, was consumed'

258 253

I smell 100% bullshit. Their "mine site" is less than 2 acres, for one. Two, dissolve enough dirt and sand in acid, and run it through a spectrometer, you will "detect" the presence of a host of elements. None of which are sufficiently concentrated to be considered "ore".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 11, 2025 12:08 PM (npFr7)

So, AOP, we can put you down for how many Shares??

259 >>As for distinct culture, they are correct. The US has no distinct culture. Leftists brag that the US is a Salad Bowl of multi-culturalism that particularly hates the WASP culture that built this place from scratch.

I disagree with that. I've traveled pretty extensively both foreign and domestic and while the US has different customs and traditions in various regions and locations it is all at it's core distinctly American.

Yes, it has been purposefully degraded by our betters but it's still there. When you return to the US from a foreign destination you know you are home whether you arrive in Seattle or Atlanta. We are basically a good and just people largely as was noted above by our Judeo Christian roots. The left constantly works to erase it but it's still there. The responsibility of every generation of Americans is to insure it always remains otherwise we are just another place on a map.

260 Michigan's head football coach was just fired for an alleged affair ... then he was arrested 😬

https://is.gd/PYK27P

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Fella needs to read some Proverbs 5.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:06 PM (L/fGl)

BLACK MAN'S KRYPTONITE!!!

261 257 More and more I am convinced that an entire generation of assholes will have to die off before America can regain its former glory.

Like in The Ten Commandments
The Israelites had to wander the desert for 40 years, 'until the entire generation that had sinned, was consumed'
Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:08 PM (ZxPkt)

That is actually a pretty good analogy. Did Trump speak to the rock, or whack it?

262 Is the culture of Paris the same as the culture of the Vendee?

Oh, wow...they're different, huh?

I guess France has no culture.

263 "this Michigan scandal is the biggest scandal in college football since the last Michigan scandal"

lol

no shit.

264 I spent a lot of time in Malmo in the '90s because my largest customer back then was in Landskrona. It was fantastic then, but apparently a shithole now. I pity people who never got to experience London or Paris back when they were English and French, as opposed to multi-cultural.

265 French culture > petri dish?

266 Like in The Ten Commandments
The Israelites had to wander the desert for 40 years, 'until the entire generation that had sinned, was consumed'
Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:08 PM (ZxPkt)

Go long on brazen serpents, right?

267 1h
A leftist dressed as a Catholic Cardinal just interrupted Secretary Noem's opening statement yelling "the power of Christ compels you."
Posted by: Don Black at December 11, 2025 12:01 PM (ZxPkt)

But as a leftist he believes Jesus is just Palestinian dude without power.

268 .
NOOD

Ace is up!

NOOD!

269 The Crockett challenge.

CROCKETT: "I challenge somebody to go and find a clip of a Democrat invoking violence!"

The GOP response.

https://is.gd/ePoqMd

270 Federal judge just ordered Abrego Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody. Just once, just once I would love to hear Trump tell this judge to pound sand.

https://tinyurl.com/38yjrnpk
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 11, 2025 11:59 AM

Almost every detail in this article is a lie.


*looks*

Oh, The Hill, of course.

271 Michigan's head football coach was just fired for an alleged affair ... then he was arrested

Where de white wimmens at?

272 Hrm. I may not have closed that tag properly. Let's just do that now.

273 "getting turned away from mostly-empty restaurants just because I'm not Japanese gets old."

They did you a favor.

With that attitude and if they let you in, imagine what they might have put in your food then stand around the kitchen laughing and high-fiving each other while you ate it.

I know a lady who married a Japanese guy, and she won't go there for the blatant bigotry she experienced when visiting his family. (His father was a fighter pilot in WWII, interestingly.)

274 *Checks cheap Hungarian/English phrase book*

Snakes in brassieres?

275 Almost every detail in this article is a lie.


*looks*

Oh, The Hill, of course.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 11, 2025 12:14 PM (jc0TO)

Covered by other sources as well. Original, more than likely, AP or CNN News Source. But, it's not just The Hill.

276 251 Backfield in motion?

Michigan's head football coach was just fired for an alleged affair ... then he was arrested 😬

https://is.gd/PYK27P

-
Fella needs to read some Proverbs 5.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 11, 2025 12:06 PM (L/fGl)
------------

She confessed the relationship to the school administration. (what's up with that?)
His mistress turned him in to the school board.
Then he treatens her and his wife and himself.

The big question is; Which one is the crazyest?

277 >>>Apparently, being able to get around on nice trains trumps [x, y, z].

"Trump!"

278 with a knife

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The Morning Report — 12/11/25

Good morning kids. So, on the latest episode of the podcast, linked here as well as in the sidebar and on the outlets listed at the bottom of the post, CBD and I discussed the outstanding leadership of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in terms of revitalizing and reviving the readiness, capability and morale of our armed forces. With the ever present threat for sure posed by the Chi-Coms and a number of other bad actors including Iran, it is vital that President Trump has the absolute cream of the crop in terms of leadership at the Pentagon and so far Hegseth has proven himself quite capable. Now, with the President determined to thwart the influx of deadly fentanyl and other narcotics from overseas (primarily via south and central America, over land and via the sea lanes) that over the past decade and longer has left a staggering body count of dead and wasted lives that is akin to a small war or a very large and sadly ongoing bloody battle. To swipe the hyperbole of the Left when describing the January 6th non-insurrection non-riot, the body count is likely akin to several 9/11 style attacks combined. Add in the pain and suffering of their loved ones and the toll we have taken on so many levels is staggering. Lest we forget, the successful smuggling of these chemical weapons of mass destruction, and that's what fentanyl and opioids in the last analysis truly are, could not really happen without people in place on our shores to facilitate in the offloading and ultimate distribution of them right down to the dime-bag pushers on a street corner. Hence the crucial nature of border and immigration enforcement as well as the general law and order push vis a vis the ordering of National Guard troops to aid and assist local law enforcement in the apprehension of criminal elements, resisted by local politicians who are beholden to the insane policies of defunding the police, and decriminalization of crime by blue shit hole mayors, governors and DAs exclusively of the Democrat/Leftist persuasion.

So the shedding of oceans of crocodile tears for the drug smugglers that the US Navy has blown out of the water is disgusting in the extreme, although quite instructive as to who and what the anti-American Democrat Left actually care about. Hegseth as both a man and as a leader is everything that the Left is not and will never be. He, and of course Donald Trump, who Hegseth represents, is a nemesis to be destroyed. Not just because of that which is reason enough for the Left, but for what he is accomplishing, which to a large extent is the will of the people, but also for his potential future as a national political leader. — no I am not endorsing him for POTUS in 2028, but merely pointing out the salient fact that if he is allowed to continue with his successes without being hindered by his and our enemies, or should he step on a rake down the road (the laughable at best charges of infidelity or some other concocted closet skeleton), he does indeed from where I sit have a shot at national office at some time in the not too distant future (he's only 45)

So all that said, it leads us to our lead story of the day which is yet more action on the high seas in the Caribbean:

The U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday.

The tanker’s ownership and origin were not revealed, but Trump said the vessel was “very large” while speaking to reporters on Wednesday. The president did not offer the rationale behind the seizure during his remarks. “As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,” he said. “Large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized actually.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi posted video of the U.S. raid on an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday.
The video shows U.S. forces boarding and taking control of the vessel as part of an operation to enforce U.S. sanctions on the sale of Venezuelan oil.

“[T]he Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran,” said Bondi. “For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” she added. “This seizure, completed off the coast of Venezuela, was conducted safely and securely—and our investigation alongside the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the transport of sanctioned oil continues.”

. . . The decision to seize the oil tanker strikes directly at Venezuela’s main source of revenue, its state-controlled oil industry. The oil it can produce through its state-owned oil company, PDVSA, is often sold internationally to countries such as Iran and China at steep discounts because of the risk of running afoul of U.S. sanctions.

Neither of the links state the final destination of the tanker, but although I cannot find where I read it, I'm fairly sure that I read somewhere that the tanker was bound for Cuba. Oh boy! Chee-Wah-Wah on so many levels if so. First, Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez have been a gigantic pain in our ass for years, let alone the long suffering Venezuelan people who, despite being awash in petroleum are among the poorest in Latin America and the world. But yes young Americans, let's all rush to transform the USA into a socialist paradise on earth, but I digress.

Venezuela aside, a number of South and central American nations are running in the opposite direction, much to the dismay of the Castro regime that still lords over the giant tropical gulag of Cuba. Thank you JFK. As for Venezuela, that regime has a long-standing partnership and close relationship with the mad mullahs of Iran, as well as Xi and the Chi-Coms who are itching to set up shop right on our doorstep to hamper if not strangle us economically, politically and if push comes to shove militarily.

That's why it is refreshing and sane that President Trump as well as Secretary of War and Secretary of State Rubio are speaking with one very loud and clear voice in the aggressive reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine.

This excerpt from the White House National Security Strategy released just last month and linked here for your perusal.

Western Hemisphere: The Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
After years of neglect, the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region. We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere. This “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine is a common-sense and potent restoration of American power and priorities, consistent with American security interests.

It would be quite something to finally see Cuba libré after 65 or more years of being a communist slave state, if for no other reason than to see the jug-eared dog-eating piece of shit Barack Obama (who propped up the regime after Fidel was dragged down to Hell) shriek in agony as Donald Trump dynamites the statues of Castro, Lenin and Marx at that Havana reviewing stand, in the same manner as that giant Swastika was blasted off the reviewing stand at the Nuremberg Nazi rally site at the end of World War 2 – I Have a Dream Today!

Of course the treasonous, traitorous venal tyrants in our midst will do their best to prevent that from happening:

I give you a whore who babbles on . . .

During a recent interview with the far-Left Daily Beast, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), one of six Democrat lawmakers who collaborated on the infamous video telling service members they have a duty to refuse “unlawful orders,” made an extraordinary claim. She said they felt compelled to act because:

There [were] so many people coming to us, who were on active duty who — recent veterans, family members of service members — who were coming to us individually and saying two things: One, ‘I’m concerned I’m going to sent in uniform to an American city, you know, like L.A., Chicago, Memphis, and I’m going to be asked to do things I either don’t think are legal or I’m not trained for. What do I do?

As CBD and I noted on the podcast, while President Trump perhaps ought to have informed Congress of his intentions to interdict and destroy Venezuelan drug running terrorists on the high seas and that he considers the Maduro regime and Maduro himself as complicit in running drugs and de facto terror leaders in doing so, the fact that he didn't do so beforehand makes little difference to me.

Given who and what the Democrats are, if past is prologue, someone for sure would have spilled the beans to Maduro ahead of time. Even if it meant putting the lives of American military personnel in danger. They hate Trump with the heat of 10,000 suns and hate America itself as much if not more because they, for the time being, have been thwarted in seizing absolute power. When they say "By any means necessary" they're not kidding as we have seen for almost 200 years now.

Sowing mutiny in the ranks. Look what was done to Derek Chauvin who merely did his job as a police officer, and how that affected police morale and recruitment. Luckily Trump and Hegseth are at the top of the heap and the average soldier and officer have little to fear in terms of a politicized attempt to drum someone out of the service for following orders, no matter how ridiculous or loudly SLUTkin and her ilk shriek "WAR CRIMES!" But if God-forbid a Democrat administration once again takes power, then you better believe a Stalinesque purge will sweep through the flag officer corps if not go down the line to just the average dogface for obeying, legitimate orders handed down by the C-in-C Donald Trump.

And so, with no other means to prop up their allies, that is America's enemies, resort to destroying morale and readiness. It's the Chicago/OBAMA way...

Unto my last breath, the greatest threat to America's national security was is and always will be the Democrat Left.

Have a good day.

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• The modern court has the chance to restore the 14th Amendment and end the judicially invented version of birthright citizenship.
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  Judge Blocks Trump From Deploying National Guard to Los Angeles

• It's time to fix a 90-year-old mistake that has fueled the administrative state.
  Yes, Supreme Court, Please ‘Destroy The Structure Of Government’
  
• Out-of-control tort litigation makes American businesses less competitive, decreases worker productivity, and discourages companies from investing in their operations – instead having to hold money back for the potential of a rent-seeking lawsuit. 
  American Families Pay The Price For Excessive Litigation 
  
• The move is part of a broader effort to eliminate “wasteful” diversity measures and restore traditional standards in federal agencies.
  State Department Restores Times New Roman Font to Reverse ‘Woke’ Policies.
  
• Some of the worst-managed states pay legislators the most.
  The Wages of Failure

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• “President Trump has made enormous strides in reversing the affordability crisis left behind by Democrats. From the historic working families tax cuts to over $18 trillion worth of investment in America, the benefits of the Trump economic agenda have only begun to kick in and there is more work to be done in the new year,” the spokesperson said.
  White House Deploys JD Vance To Bolster Affordability Messaging
  
• The truth is that the Trump administration is working hard to address the root causes of the high cost of living. They're doing this with intelligence, foresight, and experience, and basing their policy on bedrock economic principles. And even better: It's working. 
  Stop Worrying About the Midterms — Trump Prosperity Will Be Undeniable by Then

• No Tax on Tips became the law of the land with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, but a handful of blue state governors are refusing to give their constituents this tax relief. And the Trump administration isn’t happy about it.
  Blue State Govs Are Blocking ‘No Tax on Tips’ for Their Constituents to Resist Trump

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• When Providence police officers responded to a party on Liege Street last week, they discovered “four students passed out in the front yard of the home,” Fox News reported. Police said seven people overdosed at the party and were given Narcan. The individuals were transported to a hospital and were later reported conscious and alert, according to the report. 
  Three People Arrested After Seven Rhode Island College Students Overdose at Party

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: Predictable pushback for calling attention to the threat of jihad and sharia.
  Alabama Senator Tuberville Under Fire For Telling Inconvenient Truths

• The Muslim Brotherhood’s long game isn’t bombs but burrowing—an influence network shaping campuses, media, and government while Washington looks past the foreign regimes bankrolling it.
  Muslim Brotherhood Subversion Targets All of Western Civilization

  
  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• December 9 is a significant date for Jewish people. Why?
  Hoboken, NJ, Mayor Apologizes for Flying Palestine Flag on the First Intifada Anniversary

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• The media lies even when it doesn't need to.
  FACT CHECK: Media Falsely Claims GOP Held Miami for 30 Years

• John Stossel: “Justapedia,” says Rindsberg, “was founded by a veteran Wikipedia editor who couldn’t handle the left-wing bias.” “This is exactly what we need . . . people to be able to choose among different sources, so we’re not all forced into the Wikipedia information funnel.”
  Wikipedia won’t fix its woke bias — so competitors are on the rise

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Some instructors smeared Israeli and Jewish students as colonists, occupiers, and murderers. One used an introductory astronomy class to rail against 'genocide' in Gaza.
  'It's Such a Shame That Your People Survived': Columbia Report Details 'Disturbing' Anti-Semitism From Instructors at Ivy League School

  
  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• Unsealed documents accuse retired Dane County Judge Frank Remington of ghostwriting Judge John Hyland’s order rejecting a dismissal motion.
  Documents: Wisconsin Judge In Trump Electors Case Didn’t Write His Own Ruling

  
  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Democrat leaders reportedly view the filing as a political stunt from a struggling Senate candidate.
  House Dem Files Articles Of Impeachment Against RFK Jr. And Even Her Own Party Is Trashing Her

• As he positions himself as a contender for the Democrat presidential nomination, the governor with the golden résumé is likely to face mounting scrutiny for repeated exaggerations and falsehoods regarding his athletic, academic, and military achievements (So, he's a fraud and a phony - tow key Democrat résumé enhancers right there! - jjs)
  Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was 'Touted as a Foremost Expert' on Radical Islam and Was Studying for an Oxford PhD—But His Thesis Is 'Missing' and There's No Evidence He Was Ever a Doctoral Student

  POLITICS

• It's a message that every single member of our American Congress should be able to agree on, but when there were calls for objections, Sen. Dick Turdbin (D-Ill.) stepped his pretty little self up and did just that.
  In a Not so Shocking Move, Senate Democrats Refuse to Condemn Socialism

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS

• Barghouti is not in prison for his ideology. He is serving five life sentences plus 40 years.
  What Celebrities Got Wrong About Marwan Barghouti – He’s No 'Palestinian' Mandela
  
• Can you guess what the goal was?
  Hamas Deliberately Hid Tons of Infant Formula and Nutritional Shakes for Children
  
• Those who protect Israel “neither slumber nor sleep.”
  IDF Kills 'Palestinian' Islamic Jihad Commander Who Infiltrated Kibbutz on October 7

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• For Operation Spider’s Web to be a success, Ukraine was relying on a group of unwitting Russian drivers to transport their drones to the desired locations, with the truckers believing they were only hauling mobile wooden cabins. . .
  Hungover Russians thwart Ukraine’s ‘Pearl Harbor’-style attack on Moscow: report

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The tanker’s ownership and origin were not revealed, but Trump said the vessel was “very large” while speaking to reporters on Wednesday. The president did not offer the rationale behind the seizure during his remarks. “As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,” he said. “Large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized actually.”
  US Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast, President Trump Confirms
  
• Attorney General Pam Bondi posted video of the tanker seizure online on Wednesday.
  Trump Admin Drops Video Showing U.S. Forces Swarming Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast

• Brazil mine is being developed with U.S. partnership, and US firm now merges mining with REE processing capabilities.
  U.S. Strategically Securing Rare Earth Element Supply Chain Away from China

• Heavy fighting has displaced over half a million people, with at least a dozen fatalities reported along the Thailand-Cambodia border.
  Trump Intervenes in Asian War, Plans Crucial Phone Call as Half a Million Displaced.
  
• Right from the old playbook.
  Khamenei’s Lies, Hypocrisy, and the Art of Blaming Others for One’s Own Wars

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Microsoft’s deep entanglement with China, exposed in a new report, shows how the tech giant’s pursuit of profit is undermining U.S. security and handing leverage to a hostile regime.
  New Report Exposes Microsoft’s Disturbing Ties To China

• In eight glorious years, Reagan canceled American depression and defeatism with sound economic policy and a defense strategy that was stunningly realistic and enormously effective.
  Hegseth revives Reagan's defense policy and neocon war hawks hate it

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• A blog post by Congressional Budget Office staff dropped a bombshell: Spending on Medicare prescription drug coverage has exploded.
  Medicare Prescription Drugs Could Cost $500 Billion More Than Expected Over The Next Decade

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The record-breaking launches highlight China’s ambition to become a space superpower, with plans to expand its orbital infrastructure.
  China Surpasses SpaceX Rocket Launch Record.
  
• The science team labels this “Exposure of North Polar Layered Deposits,” an apt description of the horizontal red and grey and blue layers that dominate the image and make this geology look more like an abstract painting than a natural landscape.
  Abstract art produced by nature within Mars’ north pole ice cap (It's no Rothko - jjs)
  
• If anything, these stories illustrate again the corruption in our modern propaganda press. Such stories would have been considered junk four decades ago. Then it was traditional practice that a story needed at least two independent sources, one of which was not anonymous. No longer. Anyone can push any lie, and these news outlets will publicize it, for the sake of clicks.
  Unconfirmed anonymous sources at Reuters and Bloomberg claim SpaceX is planning a public stock offering

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• The fear of waiting too long, missing out on the right love, or wasting precious childbearing years pushes us to accept any affection — even when it’s fleeting or unhealthy.
  Young women's loneliness drives them to 'cuffing season,' temporary romance is not the answer

  
  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Futurism reports that in an attempt to embrace the growing trend of generative AI, McDonald’s Netherlands division collaborated with ad agency TBWA\Neboko to create a 45-second AI-generated Christmas advertisement. However, the fast-food giant’s foray into AI-powered marketing backfired as the ad was met with intense criticism and mockery from viewers for both its “AI slop” features and anti-Christmas message, ultimately leading to its removal from the company’s YouTube channel. The video is available in archive form, and has been reuploaded to YouTube by others:
  McDonald’s Calls Christmas ‘Most Terrible Time of the Year’ in AI-Generated Ad
  
• Now Disney seems to be pushing the message that the happiest place on earth is as far away from your family as possible.
  Zootopia 2 Teaches Kids They Have Trauma And It’s Their Parents’ Fault
  
• Posobiec said, “I actually have a source who went to school with the Duffer brothers…it was MKUltra experiments…it was a paranormal show. … That’s all it was supposed to be.”
  Posobiec: ‘Stranger Things’ Was Supposed to be About MKUltra, then Netflix Turned it into LGBTQ+ Propaganda
  
• Christian Toto:Far-left comic won't name names, but we all know she means Joe Rogan and co. (she's hot and horny for me and CBD! - jjs)
  Michelle Wolf: Pro-Trump Podcasters Crave Power

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